Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Through seven Midwest, Border and Southern states last week, Nixon sounded his theme. He has scaled down the war, and needs Republican support to continue that progress. He wants "new programs to reform America," and needs Republicans to enact them. He wants a stop inflation, but the "runaway pending binge" perpetrated by Democrats hampers him; the only solution is to defeat the "big spenders...
Sociology has spawned more games than Parker Brothers. But all the divertissements rest upon a single process -the breakup of phenomena into categories. It has been so ever since Auguste Comte invented the "science" and divided human progress into three stages, theological, metaphysical and positive. In recent times, the games people played included Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow, U and non-U, Soul and no Soul. Now comes the first new pop-soc. parlor game of the '70s-Consciousness...
...progressive, for instance, seems to suggest someone in favor of change; but most Americans called progressive have been distinguished by their opposition to the business system, which has introduced 90% of the enormous progress (or at least change) that has appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing...
...hope for political freedom in theoretical work is a desperate act. It's the act of a man committed to scientific, conscious, progress- and a man alienated from "reality" by this commitment to intellect, as well as by objective conditions. If his images and sounds have any sentimental content, it comes from their divorce from the real- their inability to embody the real directly...
...Museum of Modern Art, Asia House and the library for New York University. An unceasing flow of projects issues from his office in the Seagram Building, and currently he shares with Paul Rudolph and Kevin Roche an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called "Work in Progress." It includes models of Johnson's glass arcades for N.Y.U. modeled on the Milan Galleria but as high as Beauvais Cathedral; a tumbling water garden for Fort Worth; slanted prismatic skyscrapers for Minneapolis...